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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






2. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






3. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






4. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






5. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






6. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






7. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






8. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






9. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






10. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






11. Open syllable






12. Wide Range Achievement Test






13. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






14. Multisensory Structured Language






15. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






16. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






17. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






18. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






19. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






20. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






21. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






22. Ability to understand and express spoken language






23. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






24. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






25. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






26. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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27. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






28. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






29. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






30. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






31. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






32. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






33. Final stable syllable

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34. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






35. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






36. English as a second language






37. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






38. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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39. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






40. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






41. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






42. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






43. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






44. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






45. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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46. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






47. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






48. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






49. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






50. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.